U of U's College of Science
- A mushroom that makes you hallucinate tiny people? Colin Domnauer, a doctoral candidate in biology at the U and the Natural History Museum of Utah, studied Lanmaoa asiatica, a locally popular food in the Philippines that if not cooked thoroughly, might just make you see hundreds of tiny people.
- The University of Utah was awarded the 2026 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. REFUGES, a Center for Science and Mathematics Education program under the direction of U Physics Professor Tino Nyawelo, is a feature of the classification.